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Saturday, November 26, 2016

Congratulations to the following student-athletes for being named to the 5A South All-Region Volleyball teams. (NOTE: Even though 5A South technically split into sections as 5A North does not play boys volleyball, this is labeled an All-Region team. VHSL All-State teams to be announced soon.)

BOYS:

5A South Region Player of The Year: Cam Shannon, Princess Anne5A South Region Coach of The Year: Randy Jones, Atlee

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

The 2016 Old Dominion Athletic Conference football champion Randolph-Macon Yellow Jackets have swept the top All-ODAC awards announced Tuesday by the league office.

Sophomore tailback Tre Frederick, who rushed for 1,387 yards and eleven touchdowns, both ODAC-best figures, was named the ODAC Offensive Player of The Year, while defensive end Cole Burdette, who had 9.5 of the Yellow Jackets' league-leading 34 sacks, and helped spearhead an offense that gave up just 11.5 points per game in the regular season, was named ODAC Defensive Player of The Year.

Randolph-Macon head coach Pedro Arruza, completing his thirteenth season by compiling a school record-tying nine season wins, was named ODAC Football Coach of The Year.

Frederick and Burdette were also two of eight Yellow Jackets named First Team All-ODAC, along with running back/wide receiver Eric Hoy, offensive lineman Greg Castle, kicker Seth Yurgel, defensive tackle Xavier Strothers, linebacker Logan O'Neill, and defensive back Eric Long.

Six Yellow Jackets earned Second Team honors, while an additional three were named to the Third Team. CLICK HERE to see the 2016 All-ODAC team in its entirety.

Sunday, November 20, 2016

The most successful season in over thirty years for Randolph-Macon football ended Saturday the same way it began each year from 2012 to 2015.

Faced with a familiar foe, Randolph-Macon fell behind early and could not catch up as Johns Hopkins quarterback Jonathan Germano passed for four touchdowns to lead the unbeaten Blue Jays to a 42-21 victory Saturday over the Yellow Jackets in the first round of the NCAA Division III Tournament in Baltimore, Maryland.

Eric Hoy rushed for two touchdowns for Randolph-Macon, who finished with a 9-2 record, their nine wins this year as many as they achieved in both 2014 and 2015 combined. It was also just the second nine-win season in school history, joining the 1984 team.

Friday, November 18, 2016

CLICK HERE to listen live to 5A North Region Second Round football, as Patrick Henry travels to Massaponax! We begin at 6:30pm with the On The Sidelines PreGame Show Powered By Sheehy Ford of Ashland with Rob Witham and NBC12 Sports Director Marc Davis.

The game is also on WHAN Radio, 102.9 FM, 1430 AM, and on mobile devices on the TuneIn Radio App on "Radiall"!

Thursday, November 17, 2016

After 8,014 days, and some individual state title winners, a team proudly wearing a Patrick Henry Patriot uniform raised a state championship trophy high above their heads.

"Finally" was the Patriots own word to describe their five-set marathon win over Maury at home Tuesday night to send them to Thursday afternoon's 5A State Championship against Princess Anne, a team Patrick Henry fell to a week earlier in the Western Section Finals in five sets.

But that first match did not include Patriots setter Adam Lane, who was healthy and ready, along with the rest of his teammates, as they took the court to avenge the defeat and seize a championship years in the making.

A cursory look at the match statistics show a true team effort in the Patriots' three-set sweep, 25-22, 25-13, 25-22. The match was highlighted by a defensive effort, both in digging and blocking, that few teams in the Central Region have matched this season. And there may not be a better individual set played in Virginia this year than what Jarrett Carrano put together in set two, a set which saw the Patriots separate themselves from the Cavaliers in a match almost everyone expected to go the full five sets.

"Jarrett's a baller," said Patrick Henry head coach Michael Townsend, who was a eighth grader sitting on the bench the last time the Patriots played for a state title, a five-set loss to Clover Hill in 2001 in the former Group AAA format. "He's 5' 11", but he will go for anything."

Both schools enjoyed strong student section support, and the first set went back and forth, as everyone expected, before the Patriots pulled out the three-point win. That set the stage for both Carrano on the attack, joined defensively by Jaxon Delgado, Luke Puckett and others, to seize the momentum of the match with the second set victory.

It seemed early in set three it was all but over, but the Cavaliers, a regular participant at the state championship level, had one more run in them, tying the set several times before Patrick Henry was able to get two points at the end to set off a celebration that included the paying off of a bet.

"The guys told me if we won states back in August, I would have to dive on the floor and let them do the dogpile," Townsend recalled. "I had hoped they had forgotten about that, until they reminded me of it in our meeting last night."

The bet was from senior Carter Riddle, who wasn't interested from the first day of practice in watching this season be a preparation for a possible state title run next year.

"I have to say it. I called it first," Riddle said with a big smile during the post-game press conference.

The last time that Patrick Henry won a team state championship was in football, when Ray Long's Patriots knocked off Deep Creek 21-7 at City Stadium on December 10, 1994.

8,014 days ago.

With all major contributors on the court other than Riddle returning next season, the Patriots may not have to wait that long again.

A complete report on the Patrick Henry championship will appear in the Thanksgiving Week edition of the Herald-Progress.

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Patrick Henry 3, Maury 2: Patriots clinch their first bid in a state boys volleyball championship since 2001, winning 15-6 in the tiebreaker to advance to Thursday's title match, a rematch with Princess Anne, who defeated the Patriots last week in the 5A Western Section finals.

Friday, November 11, 2016

#8 Patrick Henry 53, #9 Briar Woods 28: Patriots score six second half touchdowns to win first playoff game in nine years, advance to face #1 Massaponax in second round next Friday at 7pm, a game which can be heard live on WHAN Radio and the RVA Sports Network.

#3 Stone Bridge 38, #14 Atlee 10: Stone Bridge scores all 38 of their points after halftime to end the Raiders' season at 5-6.

5A South Region First Round:

#4 Douglas Freeman 14, #5 Lee-Davis 7: Confederates struggle in the red zone, are held to one touchdown as their season comes to an end with a record of 8-3.

CLICK HERE to listen live to the 5A South Region First Round matchup between #4 Douglas Freeman and #5 Lee-Davis, tonight at 6:30pm on the RVA Sports Network!Game is also available on area radio on WHAN, 102.9 FM.

Friday, November 04, 2016

CLICK HERE to listen live to The 58th Tomato Bowl, #10 Lee-Davis (7-2) at #12 Patrick Henry (7-2), at 6:30pm on RVA Sports Network!The Tomato Bowl is also on radio on WHAN, 102.9 FM, 1430 AM, and on mobile devices on the TuneIn Radio App on "Radiall"! Listen to our postgame show tonight right after the game for first playoff projections!ALSO TONIGHT: